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<h2>InsuranceVote</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Congressional votes
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<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataset with 435 observations on the following 9 variables.
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    <code>Party</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Party affilication: <code>D</code>=Democrat or <code>R</code>=Republican</td>
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    <code>Dist.</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Congressional district (State-Number)</td>
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    <code>InsVote</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Vote on the health insurance bill: <code>1</code>=yes or <code>0</code>=no</td>
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    <code>Rep</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Indicator for Republicans</td>
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    <code>Dem</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Indicator for Democrats</td>
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    <code>Private</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with private health insurance</td>
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    <code>Public</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with public health insurance</td>
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    <code>Uninsured</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with no health insurance</td>
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    <code>Obama</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> District winner in 2008 presidential election: <code>1</code>=Obama <code>0</code>=McCain</td>
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<h3>Details</h3>

<p>On 7 November 2009 the U.S. House of Representatives voted, by the
narrow margin of 220-215, for a bill to enact health insurance reform. Most Democrats voted yes
while almost all Republicans voted no. This dataset contains data for each of the 435
representatives.
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<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Insurance data are from the American Community Survey (http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/data_main/). 
Roll call of congressional votes on this bill can be found 
at http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml.
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